Some light reading...

Well, I don't know if this has helped or hindered, but I guess I'll find out tomorrow...

All that is left for me before the flight is to finish work, hit the gym (tire out my body so I sleep well) and then watch Top Gun (so I feel brave). Then I'll wake in the early AM, whack my shades on and head up into the big blue.

Full report soon, assuming all goes well and we don't ditch it in a swamp. Of which I don't think there are any in Warwickshire, so I should be fine :-)

My first nightmare...

Well, with just four days to go until my discovery flight, I've had my first nightmare...

Dreams full of screams; full of cramped cockpits, wheezing and coughing engines and instructors having heart attacks - all my fears were present, making me wonder what the hell I'm doing this for.

But I only feel like this at night; as the sun rises, my fears dissipate like morning mist, burnt away by the bright heat of hope that a new day brings. And I am reminded of The Dark Knight Rises:

"Now is not the time for fear. That comes later..."

4 days later to be exact, when I'm 8000 feet up in a washing machine with wings.

Can't wait ;-)